== About YAM ==
Back in 1995, [http://www.mbeck.ch/ Marcel
Beck] started the initial development of YAM and released the first version to public Amiga users. While this first version (v1) was still very limited in its features the successor version (v2) introduced much more advanced features so that the 2.2 version was then also rated as the best Email client for Amiga computers back in 1998. This was probably also because YAM has been a freeware product right from the start, allowing Amiga users to travel into the great world of emails with a product they not have to spent money on.
Then in late 2000 Marcel left the Amiga development but luckily decided to release the source code of YAM under the [http://www.yam.ch/35.html GPL
open source license]. This allowed to find a group of developers working on the further development of this unique email client for Amiga computers. Already one year later the open-source developer crew released the 2.3 version showing the Amiga community that the development of YAM hasn't stopped at all.
And now, after even more years the development of YAM has advanced some more and is now aiming to bring up YAM to a level where it is compareable to other mail clients like Thunderbird. Of course we still have a long way to go, but with the help of you and the Amiga community we can make this vision reality.